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UnU. of Oregon Library guests oassw iifevi-::.'---:'i'': '.v: Forecast (From U.S. Weather Bureau. Portland) Clearing tonight; Fair Wednesday; high both days 42 - 47; low tonight 20-25. High and Low High yesterday, 47 de grees. Low last night, 30 degrees. Sunset today, 6:20. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:03. HE 5ND': BULLETIN CENTRAL .OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER 52nd Year One Section Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, March 22, 1955 Eight Pages No. 90 n H awaoli as amie rasiines Dim BJ Dead Churchill in Jovial Mood In Parliament By KEXNKTH MI1.I.KK United Press Stuff Correspondent LONDON (UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill jovially told. Parliament today to avoid being "led away by all the chatter in the papers" about his rumored re tirement. Churchill's jocular comment, however, did not still a widely held belief that his retirement is imminent. The aging Prime Minister's re mark was made in an exchange with former Socialist Defense Min ister Emanuel Shinwell. Shinwelll intervened during a question on whether Churchill would follow the American lea and appoint a dis armament minister. Yalta Discussion A moment later Churchill was serious. He said he did not think "it would be a good plan" to appoint a British disarmament minister as a counterpart to Harold E. Stassen And to Socialist questioners he said he had been informed by Washington on March 11 that the United States agreed with the British stand against publishing the Yalta papers. However, he was informed four days later that the U.S. State De partment had changed its mind be cause of pressure which could not be resisted any longer. It was in the exchange over ap pointment of a British disarma ment minister that the question of the 80-year-old Churchill's retire ment came up. Would Tell Queen The narrow, oak-panelled House Chamber was filled for Churchill's first appearance since reports began last week about his retire ment and replacement by For eign Secretary Anthony Eden next month. Nobody really expected Church ill to break the retirement news in Commons. He must tell the Queen first of all. On the other question, whether he would appoint a British counter part to Stassen, Churchill said "no." He said he was satisfied with Britain's present arrangement for approaching disarmament. OSC Exchange Students Due Special to The Bulletin I REDMOND Three exchange students from Oregon State college will be guests on the monthly Parent-Teacher program Thursday at 8 p.m. in John Tuck school. The young men who will talk on life in their homelalnds and give their impressions of life and education in the United States are Robert Broer from Austria, Paul K. Hang of Maliya and Charles Cook, an Australian. Broer is a junior in forestry, studying forestry management at OSC Hang's field is civil engi-' ncering. He is a sophomore. Cook, a freshman, is studying food tech nology in the agriculture school. They will also present the pro gram Thursday noon in Redmond hotel for the Rotarians, according to Hugh Hartman, elementary schools principal. Thursday night the students will be guests in the home -of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Peck. Mis. Peck is PTA president. Mrs. Peck announces two other items of importance on the PTA agenda. D: J. H. Stewart, tri county medical officer, will dis cuss the polio vaccine tests to be made :n the county. There is to be election of PTA officers for next year. Mrs. Everett V-an Ma tre is nominating committee chair man. Court Members Attend Session All members of the Deschutes county court "headed south" yes terday. Thev attended the annual meet ing of the Midstate Electric Co ooerative Inc., at LaPine. Judge C. L. Allen was one of the speak ers at the all-day session. The two other members of the court attending the meeting were A. E. Stevens and Rev. u. u fen-hollow. Final Wrinkles Ironed Out For Bend's Spring Opening There was a bit of lingering winter in the atmosphere this morning as a Bend group met for a breakfast session at the Pine Tavern. But members of me group are certain spring is just around the corner, and they had reason for this belief: They were members of the retail merchants' committee and they met to complete arrange ments for Bend's 1955 Spring opening and automobile show. The Spring opening program will be held on Friday evening in downtown Bend, from 7 to 9 o'clock, with all business houses to be open. Spring goods will be featured in displays and In bargains. Widespread Damage Caused As High Winds, Blizzards Rip NW By UNITED PRESS One of the most violent storms of the year swept through the Pa cific Northwest Tu e s d a y and caused at least one death, wide spread damage from high winds, and blizzards. The stormy introduction to spring brought gusts of wind as high as 93 miles per hour in the tri-cities of Eastern Washington. Power lines, trees and heavy plate glass windows fell before the storm as it roared through the Pacific Northwest into Montana. Ellsworth Seaton, 42, Bothell, was electrocuted last night when he came in contact with a 13,000 volt power line downed by the wind. The accident occurred as he was trying to fight a fire on a neigh bor's property. Strong gusty winds were reported throughout northern Oregon with a gust of 48 miles per hour at Trout dale, 42 mph at The Dalles and 33 at Baker. Continued gusty winds were forecast for northeast Ore gon today. A downed power line caused a fire which destroyed the K. T. Worthington home south of Bothell. A falling tree destroyed a home at Cocur d'Alene, Idaho, where wind damage was heavy. I. O. Waggoner of West Richland received severe face injuries when struck by flying debris in that city. At Spokane, Roy E. Stockton was injured when struck by a car after he stopped his own vehicle to free it from fallen wires. At Pasco, the sand-laden wind knocked down a huge outdoor theater screen. The picture being U0 THAR'S SILVER IN THOSE STACKS Members of Co. I. Ore gon National Guard, received their pay in silvor last night when they reported at the local armory. Some $3,000, mostly in sil ver dollars, was distributed. Sgt. Bob Kohfield, standing, is pic tured here receiving his pay from the company commander, First Lt. Jack Perry. In the center, assisting in the distribution of the $3,000 in silver, is Supply Sgt. Ralph Graham. (Bend Bulle tin Photo) The automobile show will be held on a roped-off section of Ore- j gon Avenue, between Wall and Bond. Kay Thompson, show chair-! man, reported to the group this morning that dealers are all pre pared fur (he big show. Robert J. Welle and Hul St. Clair are co-chairmen of the 1955 spring opening, and Ruy LeBlane heads the retail merchants. He presided at this morning's confer ence. The Bend Municipal Band will be featured in a concert Friday night, and will play at several in tersections. Plans are being made to feature the show this year as an ull-Cen- 1 tral Oregon event. shown was "The Living Desert." Cross-state Highway 18 between Moses Lake and Ritzville w a s closed by drifting sand but was opened about 1 a.m. Several non- injtii"y accidents were reported be cause of low visibility on Highway 395 between Pasco and Spokane. Power outages were general east of the Cascades where the wind reached velocities of 66 at Coeur d'Alene and 62 at Spokane. At Coeur d'Alene, many huge trees toppled. At least two cars were smashed, many store windows were blown in and several boats were reported sunk at their docks on the lake. Trapped Trio . Freed in N.Y. NEW YORK (UP) Two and one-half days of terror ended for three teen-agers today wnen ponce dangling on ropes 150 feet above the ground rescued them from a cave under one of New York's heaviest-traveled streets. The two girls and one boy "ex plored" the cave Saturday after noon. They were trapped until 2:30 a.m. today without food or water in their dank prison. They had spent more than 50 hours praying, yelling themselves hoarse to cars overhead on the Henry Hudson Parkway and try ing to dig their way out with their fingernails. r 4 Ike Opposing Current Talks With Russia By Will AM GAI.BKAIT1I United PmN Stuff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower reiterated to Republi can congressional kaders today his. opposition to a top level con ference with Russia until the Sov iet Union by its deeds supplies evidence of good faith. Mr. Eisenhower's stand was re ported to newsmen by Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland after the weekly White House meeting between the President and GOP congressional leaders. The attitude relayed by Know land, showing that Mr. Eisenhow er has not changed his often stated views toward a chiefs of state meeting with Russia, constituted the administration reply to a pro posal by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga). Eisenhower Opposed George, chairman of the Senate steps toward a Big Four meeting this spring or summer. Knowl-and's report to newsmen confirmed that the President has no immediate intention of return ing to the personal diplomacy of the last President Roosevelt. Knowland told reporters George's proposal was discussed at length at the White House meeting. There has been no change at present in administration policy, the Califor nia Republican slid. He said Mr. Eisenhower is pre- nared to receive any additional facts based on a changing world situation at any time. But thus far. Knowland added, the govern ment has not seen any change ill Soviet performance to warrant abandonment of the ariminisrra- .lion's opposition to a Big Four meeting. ('nniliduns Listed "The president has made it clear that he believes that such a con ference would be premature until th Soviet Union proves by deeds instead of words that they are pre pared to carry out any commit ment maac at such a mcnis. Knowland said. He minted out that Mr. Eisen hower had listed previously as "deeds" requisite to a Big Four mpotinn: 1. Rusian signature oi ine Aus trian neace treaty. 2. Agreement on tree eiecuuii!. for unification of uermany. 3. Agreement on a free ana unit- nA Korea. Knowland said there is no evi- nnred to go ahead on these points He also nointed out thai H is ih firm mlicv of the government that nnv conference nrior to final ratification of the Paris agree ments would be unnesiraory pie mature. Landing Ved To Afomic Tesi Today By COLIN MCKINLAY United Ires Staff Correspondent ATOP MT. CHARLESTON, Nov. (UP) A 'beachhead-buster" atom ic bomb blast rocked the Nevada desert and Las Vegas "like an earthquake" today as 2000 Marines conducted a simulated landing on "enemy shoers." The predawn explosion, sixth In the Atomic Energy Commission's 1955 test series, thumped Las Veg as, 75 miles away, rattling dishes and windows and touching off calls by residents wondering if it were in earth tremor. Although it was unofficially rated at less than half the power of the weapons that leveled Hiroshima md Nagasaki, its cannon-like re xrt was heard over a 125-mile -adius. Lrmdctt of Serlin A crack like a (oil of thunder momentarily stunned the ears of unofficial observers a'op the 8P0O o neak some 45 airline miles distant. It was the "loudest report" of the series, Including that of the "granddaddy" device two weeks ago, unofficially estimated as pack ing twice the punch. The report, which In nuclear fission bounce erratically off the atmosphere, was heard 350 miles away in Beverly Hills, Calif., by Boh Hill, who said it was "like a gwxl-sized cannon four or five miles away." THEV FACE BIG JOB Loaders of the Midstate Electric Co operative, Inc., pictured above, face a busy year supervision of the extension of power into the Fort Rock Silver Lake basin from LaPine. They are pictured here at Monday's annual meet ing, in LaPine. From the left, seated, are Merritt Parks, vice president; Lester McKemie, president; George Larimer, mana ger, and Clinton M. Olson, secretary. Standing from left are Directors Harold Lamb, Grant Damon, Al Baert, Roy Larson, William Taylor and G. W. Oxborrow. At right, Byron Price, BPA assistant administrator, guest speaker at the annual meeting of the cooperative. (Bend Bunlletin Photos) Mid-State Electric Cooperative Holds Annual Session at LaPine By I'HIL F. BUOOAN ., Bulletin Staff Writer LAPINE The 900 member Mid state Electric Cooperative, Inc. held its annual meeting here Mon day, elected officers, set April 25 as the date for the opening of bids ori the Fort Rock transmission line and heard a talk by, Byron ,Pjce, Portland, assistant BPA administrator. The meeting, attended by sev eral hundred persons, was held on the eve of the cooperative's big gest expansion extension of a power line south to serve the Fort Rock and Silver Lake valleys. Empowered by their fellow di rectors to "carry to completion the good work you have started," all officers were reelected. Kenneth McKenzle, who presid ed at the all-day session here yes terday, will continue as presiJent, with Merritt Parks, representing the Fort Rock area, to retain his position as vice-president. Clinton M. Olson, Shevlin, is secretary. Three directors, named for three-year terms, were elected at the annual meeting. They were Al Baert of Silver Lake, Roy Lar son, LaPine, and Olson. Holdover directors, other than WcKenzie and Parks, are G. W. Oxborrow, Crescent; Grant Damon, Chemult, William Taylor, Chemult, and Har old Lamb, Crescent Lake. George Larimer, LaPine, man ager, in his annual report indicat ed that the cooperative, with as sets of $1,140,173.52, faces one of its greatest years. Aside from the project that will bring light and power to the north em Lake county region, the co operative will complete its Cas cade Summit extension just as soon as snow conditions permit and will also complete a project that will make power available for the Fall River resort area and the Oregon State Game commission's hatchery at Fall River. Revenue this past year In creased 11 per cent. Iarimer not ed. There was a gain In expenses of 12 per cent. Larimer reminded the REA members that three years ago the cio'nerntive had a membership of nniu in .nnmnrptt with the pres ent 900.' Consumes now number ISO, with some 300 more consiim In be add"rt when lines reirh Pnynm Lunch&Oll t- Fort Rnok-Silwr Lnke basins.,'5""'" -UntWWfl Thh 9O0th member of the coop- - Mother of Year Set tor Oregon PORTLAND (I'pi Mri. Flor- cn'e Naomi Brinks of Portland wis named today as Oregon's M 'iher for 19115 M'"S. B.-inkH. widow of Rev. James Brink" wns selected from; among n'ne finalWts h'-re. She has nine children ranging in age from, i 15 to 30. I The Portland widow wis born in jOlathe. Kins., the second child in Coles, manager of the Ochoco Ir ; the family of a railroad engineer, rlgation District, will touch on She will represent Oregon in the national Amer:ca Motner compen tion In May. according to Mrs. H E. Woodward, chairman of the mother selection committee. Mrs. W. W. Gabriel, also of Port land, was runnerup for the title. erative was Sam Morehouse, of Lake county. He signed for serv ice this pust week. Directors were named by mem bers through a mail vote. The nine directors held a brief meet ing following the general confer ence, named officers, set April 25 as the date for the opening of transmission line bids and attend ed to other matters. . The contract for the construc tion of the Fort Rock-Silver Lake transmission line . has already been awarded and work will get under way on Anril 1. One ot the pre-luncheon speak ers was Charles L. Allen, Des chutes county judge, who traced the development of power in Ore gon through the years and remind ed his audience that it was at Oregon City in 1899 that the first power wus developed from falling water in the United States, for commercial use Mrs. Merritt Parks appeared be fore the group with a discussion of the role of the Soil Conserva tion Service in her district, Fort Rock-Silver Lake. "The Power Situation Today" was the topic of Price in his talk to the large group. Price said the power outlook for the next five or six years is pretly;ett recelveel rvporls from Vancou good, but after that, he noted, the outlook is not good. More power Is needed in the northwest, he said, to meet de mands. He predicted that the de mands can only be met through the cooperation of the federal gov ernment, private Interests and municipalities. Price touched on the success of the northwest pool, and said that this "partnership effort" has al ready nrovided power equal to that yielded by ghnt Bonneville, through close integration. The Bonneville assistant admin istrator was accompanied to the meeting by Thomas E. Black, BPA Portland area manaEcr. Under the supervision of Mrs. Jess Black, the LaPine Home Ex tension unit served i lunch for the large group, at 1 p.m. IPine high school boys and "iris entertained with a square dance as the afternoon session got j under way. To Feature Talk By 0See Coles LnSello Coles. Orei'on director of the National Rcclarmtion Assoc1.! lion and member of Oregon's wn ter resources committee, will be i zuct speaker at the Mnrrh forum I meeting of Ihc Bend Chamber of j Commerce The luncheon se;yion will be held at the Pine t-"""ti n" F-i day noon, March 25. M'irinn Cndy, chamber manager s ild ppservi. (ions should be made, Cady said t Oreeon's water resources and - : proniems Chamber officials urge that rep resentatives of the various Irriga tion districts and others interested in Oremn'n writer nrohlemn attend the luncheon meeting. Mid-Oregon People Tell Of Fireball Another fireball -blazed through the Central Oregon sky last night, and local observers wondered it it might have been a belated twin of the "Mad March Meteor" of March 8. Last night's fireball dropped Into th! west in much the same mnn ner as the earlier fireball, but this one was lazy. It was described as a slow-moving fireball, "big as a baseball and bright green and bluish One of the local observers, Mrs. Joe Holmes, Indicated that the fireball was sort of floating in a mist, above the cirrus clouds ot a gathering storm. Dr. J. Hugh Pinett, Eugene as tronomer, said he has received re ports from the earlier March fire- ball from 64 groups, and will com- nit hi (,.,w.i., J, m.winoti plete his tracing for publication early In April. On the earlier fireball, Dr. Pru- ver, Wash., to Langlois and Lake view, and Burns and Fort Rock. That fireball illunined the Oregon country. Aruba Reported Turning Back HELSINKI, Finland (UP) The Finnish tanker Amba has turned back from Its trip to Red China with 13,000 tons of jet fuel for the Communist Air Force, the Finnish Seamen's Union said today. The crew of the big tanker re lielled last week against running the Chinese Nationalist blockade and demanded Ihc captain put Into the port of Colombo, Ceylon. He refused and ordered the ship to sail enstwiiid us long us the men would work. The crew memlx-rs, keeping in touch with their parent union in Helsinki by radio, then announced hey would sail only as far as the Nicahnr Islands nt the mouth of the Malacca Slrait leading to Singapore. The owners of the shin notified Communist China of the action and asked for further instructions should the Aruba put into a neutral port for trims shipment nf 'he cargo or could the Ominiu lists load it (ilKXird another ship on the high sens. I'eiping did not nnswer and the Aruba's owners stopped the ship In the Indian Ocean and ordered it bark to Constanza in Red f'.o- mnnia where the kerosene was first taken nlxuird. The announcement by the Sen- j Iried to board an elevated train, men's Union ended a wave of said they had to chase Rex half speculation throughout the world way ucross town before they as to the shipping company's next i raiiKht him. move and Communist China's next I'stop. DC-6 Slams Against Side: Of Mountain: By GKOKGE KEM1NUTON United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU (UP) A four en gine Military Air Transport Ser vice plane enroute from Hawaii to California slammed into the side of a mountain today and the Navy said all G6 persons aboard perished. It was the worst aviation disast er, in the history of Hawaii. . ' The big Navy DC6, forced to re turn to Hickam Field after it de veloped radio trouble, crashed and burned on a ridge inside the Navy's top secret Lualualei Am munition Depot about 20 miles -northwest of here at about 2:16 a.m. HOT. The plane carried 57 passengers and nine crewemn. Rescue crews dispatched from the Air-Sea Rescue Coordination Center here reported from the Gmno nf tho Mich thnt llinra vara no survivors. Eu Rout to California The 57 passengers included 17 Air Force, four Navy, 12 Marine and 22 Army personnel, in addi tion to a civilian woman and her baby daughter. The plane, attached to Air Transport Squadron Three at Moffett Field, Calif., about 40 miles south of San Francisco, was enroute to Travis Air Force Base, Culif., about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. A military spokesman said the plane took off from Hickam Field at 7:16 p.m. HST yesterday and reported at 10:32 p.m. that it had developed radio trouble and would have to return. The plane was ex pected to land back at Hickam nt 1:40 a.m. Weuther Was Good Authorities were unable to offer any explanation for the crash im mediately other than the pilot ap parently wandered off his ap proach pattern somehow. -The weather In the area was generally good with occasional clouds and light rains. Marine Pfc. Joseph T. Price, Carlsbad, N.M., who was standing guard nt the ammunition depot, said he saw the plane come roar ing over the depot at an altitude of 500 to 600 feet. He said it barelv missed hitting a 700 foot radio an tenna. At that point the pilot turned on .: ,,,, iiu. j ,he Pla,lc 8 landing lights and np- parently saw the ridge ahead. The pilot banked a sharp right, Price said, but It was too late to avoid smashing into the-mountain. I'lann Burns Fiercely Price said he looked up at the mountainside just ns the plane hit and the valley below "lit up like daylight for about one minute."' He said he could see the fire burn- ng fiercely for several minutes after the crash. Clarence I roe, a civilian ordi- nuncenian nt the depot who lives on the station said he heard the plane pass over so low that the roar of Its engines awakened him out of a sound sleep. Hoe said the next he heard was a "sound like a gusolino drum explosion." He jumped out of bed and was the first person to reach Ihe scene. "It was pretty hot and three were small explosions which sounded like small arms ammuni tion going off," he said. Hoe aid he backi'd away from the flames lo see if anyone had been thrown clear but he found no signs of life. Worst In History A 21-mnn rescue team arrived a short while later and likewise found n survivors. The crash wis not only the worst recorded in Hawaii but also the most disasti-ous Pacific crash ever -e'Kirtcd outside of the Fnr East. The worst previous air disaster in 'he Pacific was the crash of a Triinsoocan Airlines plane off Wake Island July 12. 1053, in which 58 ixT.s ms were killed. tiM.v jM'Axr r, CHICAGO (I'Pl William Mnsi mitsu told police Monday why his dog Rex wouldn't come when called. Plocle, summoned when the dog Masamltsii said the dog under- s'ands only Jupanese.
